Lawrence Cosentino

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2025 7:52 am Benjamin Grosvenor, piano 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 9 Wharton Center Cobb Great Hall 750 E. Shaw Lane, East Lansing (517) 487-5001 lansingsymphony.org The Lansing Symphony Orchestra has hosted its share of world-class soloists in recent years, but London-based pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is in a class by himself. Grosvenor, one of the biggest international stars ever to appear with the LSO, fit a Lansing date between gigs in Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin,...

2 weeks ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

The Lansing area is blessed with more than its share of top-notch musical talent, but violinist-composer-conductor-DJ-educator Rodney Page earned the title of Best Classical Musician in City Pulse’s Top of the Town People Contest for the same reason he crushes everything he does: He gives you more. Page spreads the message of music in so many ways that his versatility is an object lesson in itself.

3 weeks ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:35 am Wharton Center: ‘World’s best artists’Some people will do anything to get you off the couch and out of the house. They might even offer you the world. Knock, knock.

3 weeks ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:35 am Mozart, Haydn and Bach will have to hang up their wigs and chill out. The only way to give a proper sendoff to the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s maestro of 20 years, Timothy Muffitt, is to kick things up to cosmic scale.

1 month ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Like the fabled realm of Asgard in Marvel’s “Thor” franchise, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing is about people, not a place. Meghan Martin, the council’s executive director, had to unroll a 7-foot-tall logo and plunk it next to her new third-floor office in East Lansing last week to pose for the photo on this page so that readers would know whose space this is and what this story is about.